Bobby Darin
Billy May: The Great Arranger
Billy May arranged for some of the best in the business, artists like Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, and Anita O'Day.
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Features2 months ago‘Baby Face’: A Hit For Little Richard, Bobby Darin And Many Other Faces
The song written by Harry Akst and Benny Davis also connects Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney and countless others.
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Features2 months ago
‘Mack The Knife’: Bobby Darin Takes Kurt Weill Into The Pop Charts
His reading of the song topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and became another Darin classic.
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Features2 months ago
‘If I Were A Carpenter’: Bobby Darin Introduces A Tim Hardin Gem
The classic 1960s song is also closely associated with the Four Tops, Johnny Cash & June Carter and many others.
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Features4 months ago
‘Poor Little Fool’: Ricky Nelson Rules The First-Ever Hot 100
The song written by Sharon Sheeley made history on the August 4, 1958 chart.
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Features4 months ago
Future Classics And Forgotten Novelties: Billboard Introduces The Hot 100
Listen to some of the well-known and more obscure entries on Billboard's first-ever Hot 100, for the week of August 4, 1958.
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Features5 months ago
‘Early In The Morning’: The Strange Case Of Buddy Holly Vs. Bobby Darin
'Early In The Morning' had a bizarre history, even by the standards of the chart battles that often took place in the 1950s.
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Features10 months ago
The Rhythm & Blues Legacy: The Secret History Of Rock And Pop
Fifty songs that were part of rhythm and blues heritage but which didn’t fully find a mainstream audience until they were remade.
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Features11 months ago
Reason To Believe: The Introspective Brilliance Of Tim Hardin
Endlessly underrated, Hardin wrote some of the most beautiful and enduring songs of his day, including the much-covered 'If I Were A Carpenter' and 'Reason To Believe.'
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Features11 months ago
‘From Hello Dolly To Goodbye Charlie’: Bobby Darin’s Old And New Gems
'From Hello Dolly To Goodbye Charlie' took its snappy title from the versions of those songs that bookended the great singer's 1964 album.
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Features2 years ago
When Satchmo Covered ‘Mack the Knife’
Before Ella Fitzgerald covered 'Mack The Knife', Louis Armstrong had the original hit in 1955 and proved to be Louis’s biggest hit for years.
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News3 years ago
1950s UK Rock ‘N’ Roller Marty Wilde Scores First Top Ten Album At 80
'Dreamboats and Petticoats Presents The Very Best of Marty Wilde' entered the official UK album chart at No. 7.
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Features3 years ago
‘You’re The Reason I’m Living’: Another Masterful Turn From Bobby Darin
The ever versatile Bobby Darin turned his hand to country music on 1963’s ‘You’re The Reason I’m Living’, and put his own unique spin on the style.
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Features5 years ago
The Day We Lost Bobby Darin
The life of Bobby Darin was cruelly cut short when he died after open heart surgery on 20 December, 1973. He was only 37.
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News5 years ago
Death Of ‘Astral Weeks’ Producer Lewis Merenstein
Lewis Merenstein, whose most famous credit was producing Van Morrison's 1968 classic Astral Weeks, died on 6 September in New York at the of 81.
